Auzentech announced today the release of Dolby Digital Live support for the X-Fi Prelude Soundcard. A real-time encoding technology, Dolby Digital Live converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bitstream for transport and playback through a home theater system. With it, your PC or game console can be hooked up to your Dolby Digital-equipped audio/video receiver or digital speaker system via a single digital connection. All Auzentech X-Fi Prelude owners may now proceed to the free soundcard driver update download link.

it wasn't doing that before the new driver? That's a little odd for Auzen to release a driver even a little buggy.

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No, it wouldn't decode DD using the SPDIF co-axial to my Sony HT system. It would only do PCM multi-channel. With DD it's definitely sounding better especially stuff like projectiles, etc. But I did notice certain places with a little "snow" and some chops....very faint though...don't confuse this with the chops you hear when playing a multi-channel game with a Realtek codec. This is nowhere near that. But well since this the first driver to implement DD, I'm not complaining.

No, it wouldn't decode DD using the SPDIF co-axial to my Sony HT system. It would only do PCM multi-channel. With DD it's definitely sounding better especially stuff like projectiles, etc. But I did notice certain places with a little "snow" and some chops....very faint though...don't confuse this with the chops you hear when playing a multi-channel game with a Realtek codec. This is nowhere near that. But well since this the first driver to implement DD, I'm not complaining.

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good stuff to hear, then. Just immature drivers for a new feature - which should mean Auzen might be releasing some more updated sets of drivers over the next few months as they work bugs out.

I still wish Creative would get off their ass . . . but, their big issue right now is Vista drivers